Director/PDMR Shareholding

Pearson PLC
01 September 2006



1 September 2006


Pearson plc - Notification of Directors' Interests


On 30 August 2006, Halifax ESS Trustees (formerly known as Mourant & Co
Limited), being trustees of the Pearson plc Employee Share Ownership Trust (a
discretionary trust under which all employees of the Pearson group are potential
beneficiaries) purchased 900,000 shares at 743.3834p.


All of the executive directors, being Marjorie Scardino, Rona Fairhead, John
Makinson, David Bell and Robin Freestone, are deemed for the purposes of the
Companies Act to be interested in all of these shares.


Following this purchase, the Pearson plc Employee Share Ownership Trust holds a
total of 2,594,323 shares representing 0.3220 % of the issued share capital of
the company.



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